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Education

• B.A., Queen’s
• B.Phil., Oxford
• D.Phil., Oxford

Research Interests

My research examines questions in non-consequentialist ethical theory. I am especially interested in exploring the strengths and pitfalls of Scanlon’s contractualism as a systematic expression of a non-consequentialist approach to the foundations of interpersonal obligations. I also have broad interests in moral and political philosophy; in the past few years I have taught seminars on practical reasoning, moral responsibility, ethics and future generations, contractualism, and Rawls’s A Theory of Justice.

Monographs

• Consensualism in Principle (Routledge, 2001)

Recent Edited Collections

• Ethics and Future Generations (Routledge, 2017)
• Reasons and Recognition: Essays on the philosophy of T.M. Scanlon (co-edited with Samuel Freeman and R. Jay Wallace) (OUP, 2011)

Recent Journal Articles

• “Rights, Wrongs, and the Snares of Non-Identity” Law, Ethics and Philosophy 7 2019
• “Risking Future Generations” Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 21 2018
• “Risking and Wronging” Philosophy and Public Affairs 43:1 2015

Recent Chapters in Books

• “Contractualism, Interpersonal and Intergenerational” Oxford Handbook of Intergenerational Ethics (OUP, 2021)
• “Future Generations” Oxford Handbook of Distributive Justice (OUP, 2018)

Recent Reviews

• Review of R. Jay Wallace, The Moral Nexus (Princeton, 2019) Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

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